The Influence Of “Amazing Grace”

Our students in the class, Leadership In Ancient And Emerging Worship Studies, watched the film Amazing Grace this week as a further study in worship history.

Feel free to join them in answering these questions:

“What role did the song, Amazing Grace, play in ending hundreds of years of slavery (according to the film)?” (100 words minimum)

What influence did the song have on Willima Wilberforce? (100 words minimum)

What influence did the song have on John Newton as the writer, and why did he write it? (100 words minimum)

What influence can modern worship songs have on the Church, and the culture? (100 words minimum)

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Sheltering Mercy and Endless Grace help us rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms—through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns—as a guide to personal devotion and meditation. Sheltering Mercy helps the reader pray Psalms 1-75; Endless Grace leads in prayer through Psalms 76-150.

The church has always used the Psalms as part of its prayer life, and they have inspired countless other prayers. Each book contains 75 prayers drawn from the Book of Psalms, providing lyrical sketches of what authors Ryan Smith and Dan Wilt have seen, heard, and felt while sojourning there. Each prayer is a response to the Psalms written in harmony with Scripture. These prayers help us quiet our hearts before God and welcome us into a safe place amid the storms of life.

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